This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4352.1 Message Board Post: By far and away NYC/Ellis Island was the main port of entrance in the year you mentioned - 1908. Then, often, train tickets were purchased for the rest of the trip to GR. My Grandfather came the following year (from NL), passed thru Ellis Island, and worked in New Jersey until he had enough samved for a trainride to Michigan.